Folks, We're in Serious Trouble
This jigsaw puzzle has confounded me for a while now. This morning, I woke up ahead of my usual 4AM alarm with most of the pieces fitting suddenly falling into place.
It's scary and we need to all wake up now.
I guess it was the "60 Minutes" piece on the Bush administration silencing or rebuking climatologists who warn of Global Warming. CBS' correspondent Scott Pelley went north to view effects of a rise in the Earth's temperature, studied by scientist Bob Corell. In the piece, it seemed pretty obvious to me that "the top of the Earth is melting," as Pelley put it.
The Bush administration is systematically dismantling what this country had become and it cares for noone else but Big Business. Sounds like a broad brush stroke, but it's not. Whenever gas prices spike, this administration trots out their talking heads to say "Americans are addicted to oil," and "alternative fuels are in America's Interest." Then when prices dip, the story goes back to how we're mucking with other governments. The networks - for fear of being cut off from 'exclusives' - now regularly feature the "good" news from Iraq. If they just get (or coerce) a few positive stories from war-torn Baghdad, it can't be ALL bad, can it?
But back to global warming. So far, I think the only positive story out of New Orleans was the return of Mardi Gras, but the cameras had to go in pretty tight to not show the devastation this administration is embarrassingly slow to repair. Oops, no good news there. Hurry George, point us somewhere else! Oh yeah, there are ballet and dance classes resuming in Iraq for little girls. I almost can't hear the neighborhood splattered with the internal organs and blood of another attack in the erupting civil war...
So..hard....to stay on.....global..warming....
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How 'bout them twisters in the Midwest? Another outcome of GW when cold air meets warmer and warmer air from the Caribbean.
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I live in California, and we've had enough rain to make me think I moved (floated?) to Seattle. I guess it helps out usual drought conditions, but most of us are now waiting for a dry spell...
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Speaking of Seattle - now THERE'S a wet area. Bet they feel like they've moved (sunk?) into the Puget Sound.
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Hawaii? Over 40 days straight with rain. I know it showers there nearly every day during the monsoon season, and it's tropical so you expect this, but when it makes the papers here, it's unusual.
You can check all over the world and see changes, but I think I've figured out what the administration can do to spin this:
It's a simple Adjustment Period!
Of course, how silly of me. This is just one of those pesky adjustments God is making to the environment.
(watch how I weave the Christian Right into this)
Look at a Red-Blue map of Republicans and Democrats in the 2004 election. Look where the Blue states are. Right next to the water. Raise the water? Make those Birkenstock-wearin' gay-lovin' abortionist radicals move to higher ground. They'll buy land from Red-staters, eating up farm land so exporting more jobs to higher-ground countries is necessary. More money for the conservatives, and you can force former Blue-staters to live downwind from your pig farm.
Now, the weather is terrible, but God is wiping out stuff we don't need (Polar Bears, Liberals, Penguins, Adam&Steve, etc.) so that once every drop of oil is burned out of an exhaust pipe, we will have warmed up the atmosphere until that nasty weather problem goes away. No cold air up north, no twisters, right George? The oceans will be like warm baths everywhere, and if every place is like pictures of what Florida must have been like (somewhere South of Atlanta, wasn't it?), we won't have far to drive in LNG cars (still powered by Exxon-Mobile ya know), so we'll all become energy savers. Since most people won't be able to afford homes (you think it's expensive now, wait until there's 1/3 less land, 100 million gotta move, and Billy Ray is sitting on good high ground at $500/SF (slightly higher to live upwind of the Pig Farm, remember), most people will live multi-generational, reshaping our morals in the way of Pat Robertson's dreams, absent Hugo Chavez, Muslims, and so on.
Have I covered it? Wow. All I have to do is throw logic out the window and it all becomes clear.
Thank you, Bush administration. All we need now are a lot of diversions and some smoke (Iraq again? bad boy), mirrors and shackles to keep us busy, quiet, or occupied... how about MP3 players, Internet Chat, the E! Channel, a billion hours of mindless TV... hmmm, that should do it, and if you can replay the Iraqi ballet girls every week, we'll just KNOW everything's going to be OK... as long...as I vote... for Good...Christian...white... leadership.
Be nice.
Tell me I'm wrong. Outrageous yes, but wrong? Brother I hope so.
It's scary and we need to all wake up now.
I guess it was the "60 Minutes" piece on the Bush administration silencing or rebuking climatologists who warn of Global Warming. CBS' correspondent Scott Pelley went north to view effects of a rise in the Earth's temperature, studied by scientist Bob Corell. In the piece, it seemed pretty obvious to me that "the top of the Earth is melting," as Pelley put it.
The Bush administration is systematically dismantling what this country had become and it cares for noone else but Big Business. Sounds like a broad brush stroke, but it's not. Whenever gas prices spike, this administration trots out their talking heads to say "Americans are addicted to oil," and "alternative fuels are in America's Interest." Then when prices dip, the story goes back to how we're mucking with other governments. The networks - for fear of being cut off from 'exclusives' - now regularly feature the "good" news from Iraq. If they just get (or coerce) a few positive stories from war-torn Baghdad, it can't be ALL bad, can it?
But back to global warming. So far, I think the only positive story out of New Orleans was the return of Mardi Gras, but the cameras had to go in pretty tight to not show the devastation this administration is embarrassingly slow to repair. Oops, no good news there. Hurry George, point us somewhere else! Oh yeah, there are ballet and dance classes resuming in Iraq for little girls. I almost can't hear the neighborhood splattered with the internal organs and blood of another attack in the erupting civil war...
So..hard....to stay on.....global..warming....
**
How 'bout them twisters in the Midwest? Another outcome of GW when cold air meets warmer and warmer air from the Caribbean.
**
I live in California, and we've had enough rain to make me think I moved (floated?) to Seattle. I guess it helps out usual drought conditions, but most of us are now waiting for a dry spell...
**
Speaking of Seattle - now THERE'S a wet area. Bet they feel like they've moved (sunk?) into the Puget Sound.
**
Hawaii? Over 40 days straight with rain. I know it showers there nearly every day during the monsoon season, and it's tropical so you expect this, but when it makes the papers here, it's unusual.
You can check all over the world and see changes, but I think I've figured out what the administration can do to spin this:
It's a simple Adjustment Period!
Of course, how silly of me. This is just one of those pesky adjustments God is making to the environment.
(watch how I weave the Christian Right into this)
Look at a Red-Blue map of Republicans and Democrats in the 2004 election. Look where the Blue states are. Right next to the water. Raise the water? Make those Birkenstock-wearin' gay-lovin' abortionist radicals move to higher ground. They'll buy land from Red-staters, eating up farm land so exporting more jobs to higher-ground countries is necessary. More money for the conservatives, and you can force former Blue-staters to live downwind from your pig farm.
Now, the weather is terrible, but God is wiping out stuff we don't need (Polar Bears, Liberals, Penguins, Adam&Steve, etc.) so that once every drop of oil is burned out of an exhaust pipe, we will have warmed up the atmosphere until that nasty weather problem goes away. No cold air up north, no twisters, right George? The oceans will be like warm baths everywhere, and if every place is like pictures of what Florida must have been like (somewhere South of Atlanta, wasn't it?), we won't have far to drive in LNG cars (still powered by Exxon-Mobile ya know), so we'll all become energy savers. Since most people won't be able to afford homes (you think it's expensive now, wait until there's 1/3 less land, 100 million gotta move, and Billy Ray is sitting on good high ground at $500/SF (slightly higher to live upwind of the Pig Farm, remember), most people will live multi-generational, reshaping our morals in the way of Pat Robertson's dreams, absent Hugo Chavez, Muslims, and so on.
Have I covered it? Wow. All I have to do is throw logic out the window and it all becomes clear.
Thank you, Bush administration. All we need now are a lot of diversions and some smoke (Iraq again? bad boy), mirrors and shackles to keep us busy, quiet, or occupied... how about MP3 players, Internet Chat, the E! Channel, a billion hours of mindless TV... hmmm, that should do it, and if you can replay the Iraqi ballet girls every week, we'll just KNOW everything's going to be OK... as long...as I vote... for Good...Christian...white... leadership.
Be nice.
Tell me I'm wrong. Outrageous yes, but wrong? Brother I hope so.
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